4 HUNTING IN MANY COUNTRIES. 



th€isie coverts, and usually two or three litters of foxes 

 are bred here. But. it is not an easy matter when a fox 

 is found hereabouts to know exactly which covert he belongs 

 to, for there is a rough field on the adjoining Colepike estate 

 in which foxes frequently lie, and just beyond this field there 

 is a young plantation on the Broadwood estate wiiich is now 

 an almost certain find. Broadwood was formerly part of Wood- 

 lands, but the property was divided in 1872, and the present 

 owner of Broadwood, Mr. Penman, is also a great host of the 

 hunt and a fine preserver, whose family all follow hounds. 

 In fact, the Woodlands-Broadwood neighbourhood is abso- 

 lutely the best part of the hunt, for the land is all grass, fo'xes 

 are numerous, and whichever way they go there is the chance 

 of a gallop. Half a mile north of Broadwood is Browney 

 Bank, a cross roads with two cottages, and in the days of the 

 old Durham County hounds this was the fixture nearly every 

 Monday, for besides the Woodlands coverts it commanded 

 those OiU the Colepike e&tate, which are smaller, but very good. 

 The best of these at the present day are the Triangle and 

 Stobilee, the first-named a five-acre plantation, grown up 

 with gorse and undergrowth, and terribly thick, and Stobilee, 

 a twenty-acre •wood, with very good lying in places. All 

 the coverts which have been mentioned are within a mile of 

 Browney Bank, but are smsdl in size, except the open 

 Sawmill Wood, and the upshot is that the average fox found 

 in any one of them, though he may run through several of 

 the others, is not long in quitting the district. 



And apropos the Sawmill Wood, there was for many 

 seasons one particular corner of it — next the Woodlands Five 

 Lane Ends — to which foxes were very partial, the lying being 

 good and rabbits numerous. At the time in question the 

 late Mr. Anthony Maynard was Master of the North Durham, 

 and in 1879 he engaged a new second whipper-in, this being 

 Richard Freeman, who was aftei"wards huntsman of the pack 

 for five and twenty years, and who is an uncle of the Pytchley 

 and the late Zetland huntsman. Hounds met at Browney 

 Bank and drew the Sawmill Wood, and Freeman was told 

 to gallop up the lane to the Five Lane Ends, and 

 halloa if a fox left the covert. And quite lately he 

 told the story at a North Diirham puppy show. " It 



